Kirsten Achtelik

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Kirsten Achtelik (* 1978 in Stolberg ) is a German sociologist , journalist and author .

Career

Achtelik studied social sciences and political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin ; In 2007/08 she spent an academic year in Madrid. In 2009 she completed her studies at the HU Berlin with a thesis on the Spanish women's movement and abortion law under the title "Aborto libre y gratuito". In June 2017 she started her dissertation on the relationship between feminist , disability policy and “life protection” movements with the sociologist Karin Lohr at the Institute for Social Sciences at HU Berlin .

As a freelance journalist , Achtelik writes for taz , Jungle World , New Germany , Dr. med. Mabuse , specifically , the papers , the genetic-ethical information service and the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Focus of work

As a sociologist and author, Achtelik focuses, among other things, on feminist theories and movements as well as interfaces with other social movements, especially the disabled movement , and criticism of genetic and reproductive technologies . From 2017 to 2019 she worked in the medical department of the Berlin “Gen-ethical Network”, which publishes the Gen-ethical Information Service .

Achtelik deals with the goals and medical ethical strategies of militant anti-abortionists who call themselves the " right to life movement ". By trying to establish martial terms like "unborn life" for the unborn child these fundamentalists would try to occupy a spectrum which one could not disagree. With terms like “ abortion holocaust ” they would at least accept the denial of the singularity of the holocaust and organized extermination. Eightelik sees these anti- abortion opponents as being far to the right and generally misogynistic . They represent authoritarian positions and not only reject abortions. Her partly anti-democratic cultural criticism is also directed against the 1968s and social progress in order to be able to use the upswing of the new right and go on a march through the institutions . Achtelik sees this endangering the right to self-determination for unwanted pregnant women: "If a woman is unwantedly pregnant and she does not want to have a child at this point, then she should be allowed to terminate her pregnancy."

Achtelik also deals with prenatal diagnosis , preimplantation genetic diagnosis , egg donation and surrogacy and ethical point of view regarding genetic engineering and reproductive medicine . From a sociological point of view, according to their observations, prenatal diagnosis carries the risk of becoming a “quality check for future babies”. This leads to a dynamic investigation that ultimately leads, for example, to the induced abortion of the great majority of all fetuses in which trisomy 21 is detected. Blood tests would put pregnant women under high social pressure to do everything for their children even before the birth; Self-optimization and the desire to do everything right can be felt here. With the establishment of a search for disabilities as a normal part of prenatal care, a standardization process will be promoted by people. People who do not conform to social norms would be perceived as strangers and not treated equally with others. An inclusive society would not be prevented by too little money, but by the "idea of ​​healthy, infinitely resilient and non-aging high performers". Fundamentalist anti-abortion opponents would also try to tie in with the demands of the disability movement. Their goal, however, would only be an abolition of women's right to self-determination, not that of a society with equal participation of disabled people.

Books

own publications
  • with Eike Sanders, Ulli Jentsch: Kulturkampf and conscience: medical-ethical strategies of the "protection of life" movement. Verbrecher Verlag Berlin 2018 ISBN 978-3-95732-327-9 .
  • Self-determined norm: feminism, prenatal diagnosis, abortion. Verbrecher Verlag Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-95732-120-6 , ( limited preview ).
Contributions to anthologies
  • For fetuses and values ​​- the "life protection" movement in Germany. In: Juliane Lang, Ulrich Peters (Hrsg.): Antifeminism on the move: Current debates about gender and sexual diversity. Marta Press Hamburg 2018 ISBN 978-3-944442-52-5 , pp. 117-138, ( limited preview ).
  • A people dies in the womb. In: Markus Liske , Manja Präkels (Ed.): Caution people! Or: movements in madness? Verbrecher Verlag Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-95732-121-3 , pp. 86–91, ( limited preview ).
  • Against the “marches for life” - a success story. In: Familienplanungszentrum Balance (ed.): The new radicalism of anti-abortionists in (inter) national space: is the sexual self-determination of women in danger today? AG SPAK books Neu-Ulm 2012 ISBN 978-3-940865-32-8 , pp. 81–84, ( limited preview ).
Translations
  • Raúl Zibechi: Territories of Resistance: A Political Mapping of the Urban Peripheries of Latin America. (Translation by Kirsten Achtelik and Huberta von Wangenheim) Association A Berlin Hamburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-86241-402-4 .
    • Spanish original edition: Raúl Zibechi: Territorios en resistencia: cartografía política de las periferias urbanas latinoamericanas. CGT Madrid 2011 ISBN 9788461555864

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirsten Achtelik: El movimiento feministay su lucha por el derecho al aborto 1979-86 y 2007-08. January 12, 2010.
  2. ↑ Diploma and Master's theses. Institute for Social Sciences at the HU Berlin .
  3. ↑ Current doctoral projects. Institute for Social Sciences at the HU Berlin .
  4. ^ Author profile Kirsten Achtelik. In: taz .
  5. ^ Author profile Kirsten Achtelik. In: Jungle World .
  6. ↑ Article by Kirsten Achtelik. In: New Germany .
  7. ↑ Article by Kirsten Achtelik. In: Dr. med. Mabuse .
  8. ^ Author profile Kirsten Achtelik. In: leaves .
  9. ^ Author profile Kirsten Achtelik. In: Gen-ethical information service .
  10. ↑ a b employees. ( Memento of May 6, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) In: genetic ethical network.
  11. ↑ Milena Hassenkamp: "We don't need an expensive study that proves what we already know." In: Spiegel Online . 15th February 2019.
  12. ↑ Karin Böke: From “developing life” to “unborn child”. Speech strategies in the discussion about the reform of § 218. In: Frank Liedtke , Martin Wengeler , Karin Böke (Hrsg.): Occupy terms: strategies of language use in politics. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1991, ISBN 978-3-322-92242-7 , pp. 205-219, ( limited preview ).
  13. ↑ Vanessa Gaigg: Author Achtelik: "You can't force anyone to have a child". In: The Standard . October 12, 2019.
  14. ↑ a b Christiane Florin : “Every person is inherently hostile to the disabled” . In: Deutschlandfunk . July 10, 2018.
  15. ^ A b Zoe Sona: March through the institutions. In: taz . June 10, 2018.
  16. ↑ a b Barbara Vorsamer: quality checks for babies. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 27, 2015.
  17. ↑ Hannes Leitlein: Barrier-free for everyone. In: The time . No. 51 2016, 8 December 2016.
  18. ↑ Reviews of Kirsten Achtelik: “Self-determined norm”:
    Victoria Fischer: Review of Kirsten Achtelik: “Self-determined norm” (2018) In: hypotheses.org. July 15, 2019.
    Heike Ursula Raab: Feminism and disability: contradictions, ambivalences and criticisms. In: Querelles . Volume 17, No. 4 (2016).
personal data
SURNAME Achtelik, Kirsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg (Rhineland)